Maaz al-Kassasbeh was flying at a high altitude and hit the brick factory
Safi Al-Kassasbeh, father of the Jordanian pilot Maaz, who was captured by Islamic State group after his plane came down near Raqqa in Syria (Photo: AP)
Beirut: Technical failure caused a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State jihadists in Syria to eject after flying at low altitude, activists and a monitoring group said.
Maaz al-Kassasbeh “was flying at a high altitude to start with. He hit the brick factory and then disappeared from sight”, said Obada al-Hussein, an activist from IS-held Raqa said.
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Raqa is the self-proclaimed IS “capital”. “Then the plane flew back, and this time smoke was coming out of it. I believe there was a technical failure,” Hussein said.
( Source : PTI )
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